Upgrading from a 560 ti

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Hey guys, Im currently running a 560 ti. It was all fine with my old monitor but now that I upgraded to a nice one, it seems that I need to lower my settings to medium to get 60+ fps.

So I want to upgrade to a gtx 770 (is it a good choice?) but I notice that my power supply doesnt have 2x8 pins on a single pci-e cable (wich is what the 770 needs). I have instead 2 cables of 6 pins and 6+2 pins.

Can I use the 6+2 pins of both cables to power the card at all? I was worried about the rails and everything, I dont know much about power supplies.

Ill tell my specs quick

Psu: Antec TP 650
cpu: i5 2500k
gpu: 560 ti dcull

Thanks for your time,

Jerome
 
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But the OP has not said anything about wanting to go SLI? And I would assume that 2 770's in SLI would be awesome, pretty spendy to.
My 560ti' in SLI are really awesome too, still.
If the OP wants a single card, unless you just prefer nVidia for some odd reason a 280x simply makes more sense to me.
 
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Thanks man for answering, a 280x over here in canada would cost me 360 shipped, same as a 770. Since its less noisier and everything, I thought it was a good choice, but I never thought about the vram.



Thanks for answering, well at the price of a 4gb card, I can get a 290 for like 20 buck more. Benchmarks doesnt show real benefits when running at 1080p haha. Also thanks about the pins, I thought they were all 8x2 pins :p



Yeah Im really sensitive on frame variance and refresh rate, always need minimum 60 so it plays smooth. I never actually tried SLI but I heard to much about micro stuttering and I was scared about it being a game killer for me.

Thanks for the answer mate! Ive been searching all night and found that I could get a 290 for 100 bucks more than a 280x. Quite a bit more but you can see in the benchmarks that it even comes really close to the 290x, almost gaining 20%+ performance vs a 280x.
 
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But I think if you can get the r9 290 for only 20 dollars more as long this is not an reference model you should buy why?

Have 2560 computer processors
Have more memory 4gbs
Have more memory bandwidth (better antileasing) 512bits vs 384bits
And this card would likely play most future games on high ultra for 2 years

I would definitively would buy an r9 290 over an r9 280x if it only cost me 20 bucks more but as long it is not an reference model xD
 
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Hey mate, thanks for your answer again. Yesterday, before I saw your comment, I bought myself a new gpu wich is a gigabyte R9 290 windforce. It was like 50 bucks more than the equivalent 280x and it comes with amd game bundle. Glad that I did now that I see your comment :)

Btw, ive heard alot of biased review on that gigabyte card, other say its awesome, others say that they get poor OC and even need to downclock some cards for them to run. Seems to be almost 50/50. Is the card really that bad quality or just that people are a little bitchy? :p

Thanks again,

Jerome
 
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i heard bad things about the r9 290x model but just good things about the r9 290 one so i would say your card would be good to go the average temp of this card is 78 to 83 so i would say you could have some overclocking headroom :D i glad you pick the r9 290 model is the best card for the money anyone can get :D
 
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